No. 194.  “Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, are often of decisive influence.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 119.  “A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale relieve the folio page.”—­D’Israeli’s Curiosities, Vol. i, p. 15.  “For outward matter or event, fashion not the character within.”—­Book of Thoughts, p. 37.  “Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, have warmed cold brains.”—­Dryden’s Poems, p. 76.  “Motion is a Genus; Flight, a Species; this Flight or that Flight are Individuals.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 38.  “When et, aut, vel, sine, or nec, are joined to different members of the same sentence.”—­Adam’s Lat. and Eng.  Gram., p. 206; Gould’s Lat.  Gram., 203; Grant’s, 266.  “Wisdom or folly govern us.”—­Fisk’s English Gram., 84. “A or an are styled indefinite articles.”—­Folker’s Gram., p. 4.  “A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up into prodigies.”—­Spectator, No. 7.  “Are either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, p. 578, Sec.589.

   “Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
    Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
        —­Pope, Iliad, B. x, l. 293.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.

“Neither he nor she have spoken to him.”—­Perrin’s Gram., p. 237.  “For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the reader from weariness.”—­JOHNSON:  in Crabb’s Syn., p. 511.  “Neither history nor tradition furnish such information.”—­Robertson’s Amer., Vol. i, p. 2.  “Neither the form nor power of the liquids have varied materially.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alph., p. 16.  “Where neither noise nor motion are concerned.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 55.  “Neither Charles nor his brother were qualified to support such a system.”—­Junius, p. 250.  “When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion, serve, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 381.  “In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, are fairly laid before men.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 269.  “Neither the intellect nor the heart are capable of being driven.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 20.  “Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana are in any way connected with the Sun or Moon.”—­Coleridge’s Introd., p. 199.  “Of which, neither he, nor this Grammar, take any notice.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 346.  “Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extend so far.”—­Robertson’s Amer., Vol. i, p. 287.  “Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, consider Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverers of the continent of America.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 471.  “Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, have been thought worthy of a moment’s consideration.”—­Junius, p. 174.